Is my host throttling me?
Slow, then fine, then slow again usually means a limit.
My site (<stack> on <host>) gets slow, returns errors, or goes down under load, and then recovers on its own. Help me find out whether I'm hitting a host limit: - Which limits this host enforces per account: CPU, memory, processes, connections, file count, bandwidth. - Where the host shows my usage against those limits. - What my app might be doing that spikes each one. - What visitors see when each limit is hit. Then rank the fixes: things I can change in my code, settings I can change on this host, and the point where I should upgrade the plan.
Shared hosting limits are often counted per account, not per site. Another project on the same account can be the thing slowing this one down.